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Victorians Flashcards

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Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Through the Looking-Glass (1871, “Jabberwocky,” “The Walrus and the Carpenter”),

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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

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Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904)

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Washington Square (1880)

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Henry James (1843-1916)

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The Turn of the Screw (1898)

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Henry James (1843-1916)

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Great Expectations (1861)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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The Woman in White (1860)

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Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

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Henry James (1843-1916)

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Daisy Miller (1878), Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), What Maisie Knew (1897), The Turn of the Screw (1898), The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), The Golden Bowl (1904)

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Nicholas Nickleby (1839)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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Middlemarch (1871)

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George Eliot (1819-1880) - actual name Mary Ann Evans

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The Golden Bowl (1904)

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Henry James (1843-1916)

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

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The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

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Henry James (1843-1916)

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The Pickwick Papers (1837)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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Our Mutual Friend (1865)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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Jane Eyre (as Currer Bell, 1847)

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Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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The Invisible Man (1897)

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H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

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“The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1854, “Theirs not to reason why/Theirs but to do and die”)

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892, laureate 1850-92)

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Jude the Obscure (1895)

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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Heart of Darkness (1899)

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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), inspiration for Apocalypse Now

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Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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The Time Machine (1895)

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H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

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Oliver Twist (1837)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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The Ambassadors (1903)

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Henry James (1843-1916)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1852), Little Dorrit (1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1861), Our Mutual Friend (1865)

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

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Wuthering Heights (1847)

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Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

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“Grow old along with me!/The best is yet to be,/The last of life, for which the first was made.” – “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,/Or what’s a heaven for?”, “less is more”

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Robert Browning (1812-1889)

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Lord Jim (1900)

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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

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“Crossing the Bar” (1889)

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892, laureate 1850-92)

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“Sonnets from the Portuguese” (1850, 43. “How do I love thee?/Let me count the ways”)

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1881)

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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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Dracula (1897)

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Bram Stoker (1847-1912)

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David Copperfield (1850)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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Little Dorrit (1857)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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A Christmas Carol (1843)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892, laureate 1850-92)

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“Ulysses” (1842), In Memoriam A.H.H.” (1859, “Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all”), “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1854, “Theirs not to reason why/Theirs but to do and die”), “Crossing the Bar” (1889)

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Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

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Wuthering Heights (1847)

40
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Kim (1901)

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

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The Jungle Book (1894, inc Rikki Tikki Tavi), “The White Man’s Burden” (1899), Kim (1901), “If - “ (1910 poem)

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War of the Worlds (1898)

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H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

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Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

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Jane Eyre (as Currer Bell, 1847), Shirley (1849)

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Nostromo (1904)

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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

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Vanity Fair (1848)

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

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The Jungle Book (1894, inc Rikki Tikki Tavi)

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

48
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1881)

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“Sonnets from the Portuguese” (1850, 43. “How do I love thee?/Let me count the ways”) candidate for Laureate in 1850

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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), The Lost World (1912)

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In Memoriam A.H.H.” (1859, “Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all”)

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892, laureate 1850-92)

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

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The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Vanity Fair (1848)

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The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)

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H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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The PIcture of Dorian Gray (1890)

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), Jude the Obscure (1895)

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The Moonstone (1868)

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Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)

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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

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Robert Browning (1812-1889)

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“Grow old along with me!/The best is yet to be,/The last of life, for which the first was made.” – “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,/Or what’s a heaven for?”, “less is more”

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H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

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The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), War of the Worlds (1898)

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Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

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Agnes Grey (1847), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

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The Woman in White (1860), The Moonstone (1868)

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The PIcture of Dorian Gray (1890)

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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Silas Marner (1861)

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George Eliot (1819-1880) - actual name Mary Ann Evans

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George Eliot (1819-1880)

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Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871) - actual name Mary Ann Evans, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

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Bleak House (1852)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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Treasure Island (1883)

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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